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Old 04-03-2009, 10:26 PM  
Paul Markham
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Originally Posted by jay23 View Post
may be start a PR campaign telling how all the dating sites profiles are fake.
It has to be done by a significant number of sites. There are solutions out there but they will not work if only a few sites adopt them.

The key is to sow a seed of doubt in the surfers mind, then when he does not get anything in the first 20 tries he gives up.

I met a guy recently who travels the world with his job, he has girl friends in most ports. It takes on average 50 tries to get a genuine one. Most of the replies that come back are people trying to sell something, usually themselves.

The problem with dating sites is most women are not looking for multiple partners, once they find a good guy they get out of the race. Which effects the ratios. Dating sites are new and they will decline as people find out how hard it is to get a girl friend from most of them. Then less will click on an advert and the profit from advertising is going to be effected.

Look at the way Cam sites fell after a few years when people realised they were not all they're cracked out to be. The same will happen to dating sites. We can give them a nudge if enough do it.
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